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The meeting takes place at the Methodist Church on Garfield Road, Ryde and starts at 7pm sharp. If you want to hear what the Ryde TC planning committee has to say, make sure you're there.
Westridge Farm
The land at Westridge Farm is recorded as having been farmed for centuries.
A planning application for 473 houses by Captiva Homes – named West Acre Park – loomed over the tenant farmers, The Hollidays, who have been farming the land for over 50 years.
The Isle of Wight council Planning Committee approved the plans on 27th July 2021.
Below are articles relating to the application.
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The first target has been reached with nine days to go. If the new stretch target of £55,000 is raised it will go towards the Judicial Review and aspirations of a community farm on the site
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Solicitors for Save Westridge Farm campaigners challenges Isle of Wight council's recent planning permission decision
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Residents in Ryde, fighting to protect one of the last working dairy farms on the Isle of Wight, have taken to making scarecrows in a creative bid to scare off a planning application.
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The councillors say the Island is "sleepwalking into a nightmare scenario" and that the planning department have to start listening to residents
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This Isle of Wight councillor says Islanders "need to rise up and demand legislation, so we control our own housing, environmental and economic needs" and not be dictated to by "blinkered politicians".
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The application has over 400 objections and a petition was launched over the weekend appealing for further support against plans to build 473 homes on a currently working farm
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A late submission from Natural England 'could' see the West Acre Park planning application for 473 homes go back to Planning Committee
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Campaigners believe they have a 'solid case' for Judicial Review and plan to move on this once the formal planning permission for West Acre Park has been granted
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Cllr Lilley says the issue over migrating birds means Planning Committee members will be required to approve amendments to the application to include mitigation conditions
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Calls are being renewed for the West Acre Park planning application to go back to the Planning Committee before formal permission is granted
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The fate of the West Acre Park planning application could be determined at Tuesday's committee meeting, or will it result in heated discussions once again?
